Literacy and numeracy training for young entrepreneurs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Literacy and numeracy training for young
entrepreneurs

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Systematic and integral entrepreneurs’ literacy and numeracy training at high proficiency levels is targeted towards business management excellence and it is among priorities of EU strategy for sustainable growth, innovation and competitiveness. The screening of young entrepreneurs learning styles and identified best practices and methods used in their training will ensure insight into needed literacy and numeracy skills and attitudes of the target group and the most suitable ways of providing training to them. The challenges of proficient literacy and numeracy are particularly acute for low qualified and low-skilled young entrepreneurs in micro and small firms who strive to upgrade their basic competencies. They tend to have greater problems and also face barriers in accessing affordable training to up-skill their literacy and numeracy and take advantage of improving their business performance. The achievement of the project aims and objectives will contribute to the improvement of the entrepreneurial culture and basic skills which will enrich literacy and numeracy training in the EU through: 1. Planning and testing of literacy and numeracy entrepreneurial training which will develop the young entrepreneurs’ skills to meet future challenges in their business. 2. Develop and offer training resources of innovative methods for literacy and numeracy training. 3. Develop and support an Internet platform for distance teaching and learning which will enhance the literacy and numeracy skills of young entrepreneurs. 4. Contribute to integration of literacy and numeracy training of low-qualified and low-skilled entrepreneurs into European curricula. This objective will be achieved via effective dissemination activities and exploitation and sustainability plans of the project and its outcomes. The focus of the project is to provide a straightforward, proactive, and hands-on method to foster young entrepreneurial literacy and numeracy and to add a crucial, and sometimes missing, viewpoint to their life. By adding such perspective through basic skills training, entrepreneurs can begin to bring their business to more competitive positions. For achieving the aims of the project the following instruments will be used: screening questionnaires and guidelines for best practices identification, focus groups, analysis of styles of young learners, experimentation with teaching methods, learning materials and tools elaboration, based on results of the study, e-learning platform development, approbation, piloting and evaluation of the feasibility of the training, process of consultation with key stakeholders, continuous process of monitoring and revision in terms of ensuring quality, using of various suitable dissemination channels and means for ensuring sustainability and multiplication of the achieved results. The main innovative elements of the proposed project are: • Development of basic skills of low-qualified young entrepreneurs and common educational standards for their literacy and numeracy training; • Development of e-based literacy and numeracy training modules for young entrepreneurs; • Networking of basic skills trainers of low-qualified young entrepreneurs; • An area for young people training advance that will offer a starting point for further transfer of practices in a specific VET field. The target group of entrepreneurs – low-skilled young people, who want to start own business will be approached through own network of each partner and national and sectoral employers’ organizations, dissemination and motivation events. The training platform and course developed will allow for better performance of young entrepreneurs and it will create new opportunities for employment for young people. The second target group includes managers, trainers and institutions providing training and education programmes in the field of entrepreneurship. The implementation of the project will build on needs assessment and create relevant materials and will design the agenda of basic skills training. This will include experience and best practices of all network partners.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 140089 Eur

Project Coordinator

OSENGO & Country: FR

Project Partners

• INSTITUT ZA PODGOTOVKA NA SLUJITELIV MEJDUNARODNI ORGANIZACII ZDRUZHENIE
• JOVENES HACIA LA SOLIDARIDAD Y EL DESARROLLO
• INSTITUTE FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDIES
• SOCIAL YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CIVIL NONPROFIT SOCIETY